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Good morning all, we've made it to Friday and even this is somewhat different.....

Last night wrapped up the Democratic convention. I listened to Hillary's speech, and while I'm biased against her, I tried to keep a level head and listen for substance. Nope, I didn't get any. At one point it appeared like her hubby Bill had actually fallen asleep. I can't blame him.

Yesterday ended about as flat as flat can get. They didn't like nor hate the Fed's statements, and they didn't seem anxious to make a big push either up or down.

This morning I expected to see bright green futures on the heels of Face Book's big earnings. But no... they were flat to slightly red and even now at 8:15 as I type this, they're still a bit pink. DOW off 18, S&P down 2.

Follow the plot.... Hillary is proven by the FBI to have lied about sending confidential emails. Hillary is proven to have installed an unsecure server. Hillary is proved to have used multiple devices. Hillary it is suggested, might have been hacked. Hillary’s faithful say “move along, there’s nothing to see here.”

Bernie attracts hordes of fairly uneducated but highly emotional young people who think something’s rotten in Denmark. He imparts into their brains that he’s the fine upstanding human that feels their pain and understands how unfair life is. He’s going to show them by example how wonderful Democracy is and that their votes count. By the literal millions, they march arm in arm for their man Bernie. But a problem arises.

The circus that is indeed this current Presidential race is taking on a life of its own. Last night Hillary was officially nominated as the Democratic Presidential hopeful. The minute that happened, hundreds and hundreds of so called Bernie people left the arena. The press did their best to cover it up with camera angles, but cell phone video's from people in the stands show it clearly. Almost half the arena emptied out

Yesterday was pretty boring. We opened and fell out of bed for about 90 points and "hung there" for a large portion of the day. But even at 1 pm with the DOW off 96 and the S&P down ten these were the numbers...
AMEX 20 new highs 1 new low, NAZ 136 new highs and 25 new lows, NYSE 225 new highs and 9 new lows. As you can see, despite the averages being red, there was a lot of movement taking place.

Good morning all, welcome back from your weekend.... and one that I hope you very much enjoyed. Here at our homestead, Saturday was fairly routine, capped off by a night of Free UFC fights courtesy of Fox. I've been a fan of the UFC since its beginning, mainly because way back in ancient history, your editor spent 3 evenings a week from the age of 11 - 18 studying martial arts. I don't speak of it much, since it was so very long ago, but yes, I hold a black belt in Judo and a second "dan" in jiu-jitsu. However, truth be told I haven't trained in it in over 30 years

The newest Financial Intelligence Report has been posted, and this week we're chatting about the Conventions. I also throw an interesting "aside" in there concerning the FBI and Hillary's server scandal. This week starts the Democrats Convention and I wonder if the media will be as biased TOWARDS her as they were biased AGAINST Trump. I'd bet on it.

We just wrapped up the Republican Conventions and it ended with a speech by Donald Trump. The left has gone apoplectic over the things that were said, and ended up calling it “dark” and “doom and gloom”. It was nothing of the sort.

Tom Brokaw had this to say...“Others looking in are going to see someone they will only think as a demagogue of some kind.” George Stephanopoulos, a former Democratic operative, echoed his colleague Chuck Todd: “He [Trump] painted a dark picture of where America stands today.” For emphasis, Stephanopoulos repeated, “And Martha Raddatz, a pretty dark speech.” Chuck Todd labeled, “I thought it was an extraordinarily dark speech.” Republican operative Nicolle Wallace lamented, “We are now represented as a party by a man who believes in protectionism, isolationism and nativism.”

Good morning all, welcome to Friday. I'm running a bit behind this morning as I stayed up to watch the end of the RNC, which for me got to be pretty late. By the time my guests had left, and I was ready to hit the sack, it was almost 1 am. So bear with me this morning, I haven't had enough coffee yet!

I got some emails asking if I still had PAAS and SAND. The answer is yes. When I mentioned having 3 stocks in the short term holds bucket, I left out SAND and PAAS because frankly...they' were becoming longer term holds. Usually in the swing account, we're out of a position in a few days. We've had these for a while. Then I got some emails asking why it seemed that the miners had taken big hits lately. Good question and there's a good answer.